Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / Laurie Langbauer.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Reading Women WritingPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781501723063
- 823.009/9287
- PR830.W6L36 1990
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E-Book | De Gruyter | Available |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Romance of History, or Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes -- 2. Diverting Romance : Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote -- 3. An Early Romance: The Ideology of the Body in Mary Wollstonecraft's Writing -- 4. Streetwalkers and Homebodies: Dickens's Romantic Women -- 5. Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage: George Eliot's Pessimism and the Problem of a Site for Feminism -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Open Access unrestricted online access star
https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
In English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
There are no comments on this title.